yogi lab

Rainbeau Workshop

Checking out Rainbeau Mars website yesterday, I stumbled upon a workshop she is leading in NY at the Strala yoga studio.  I have never been to a yoga workshop, but this would be an amazing one to first drop in on.  I immediately called my brother, since he is the one that introduced me to Rainbeau Mars lineup of yoga DVDs.  As a sidenote, he has confessed to me his love for her.  Alas, he did not answer his phone, as I believe he was venturing to Beer Fest in AC.  I next dialed my dad, and he says he would like to go, but will give me a definite answer today.  Considering that I would like to go to Kripalu in August to see either Rainbeau or Deepak Chopra, I figured going to this workshop on May 7th in NY would help me decide between the two in August.  So I signed up.  Even if I am going alone, I think it will be an amazing experience.  Check it out here.

Wheel pose

So I did it!  Well...its getting there anyway.  A best friend, Rachel, joined me for yoga today.  It was an awesome class; good for beginners, but lots of options for more practiced yogis.  And when our instructor told us at the end, after warming up to it, to go into bridge or wheel, I actually got my head off the floor.  I was so excited.  I wanted to yell, "Hey, look at me!" because it was the first time I had ever gotten to where I did in wheel pose.  And it felt so easy to get there.  I still have a long ways to go.  But after a good chat and strawberry banana smoothie from Yiannis cafe with Rachel, I raced home to show my husband my new move.  And told him to snap a pic.  :)

It's getting there.  Moments like these I remember why I practice every day.

Rainbow...

farts.  Ha.  This is what Tim, my husband, calls the rainbows I see often in the sky and get excited about.  Rainbow farts!  I saw one today and took it as a sign.  I stayed after work late to work on report cards and narratives.  A fellow teacher entered my classroom, and we started a discussion that really has no end:  the units of study that Lucy Calkins invented.  Argh is all I have to say.

Anyway, the discussion that has no end, eventually ended as I was packing up my things because I had to get going.  Slow flow yoga was 30 minutes away.  And I so needed it today.

I was about five minutes behind schedule, behind the time I intended to leave.  Needless to say, a few events occurred that had me thinking, of course this is happening as I am running late.  For instance, the bridge was closed, so I had to take a longer route.

Thinking to myself whether I should just stop at my dad's house, which is on the way to yoga class, or bust in late, once I started hitting all green lights on Atlantic Avenue, I thought I had a shot of not being too late.  Btw-Making all the lights on Atlantic Ave was a first!

Then, I looked up at the horizon, and saw the rainbow!  In the middle of everything, it was beautiful.  I felt at that moment that I would make it to class.

So I went.  And it was a relaxing 89 minutes,  as I was only 1 minute late.

Here is a picture of the rainbow "farts" that I usually see.

This is the best picture I can find.  Tim calls them rainbow farts because I always see 1/4 of a rainbow in the sky.  He tells me they are not rainbows!  Ha.  I really do get excited when I see them too.

A life changing event...

What brings you down will bring you up....eventually...and much, much higher than you ever were before.

A hysterectomy @27 years old because of a cancerous fibroid, and a rare kind of cancer at that (leiomyosarcoma).  It all happened very quickly.  Today I am cancer free, still getting monitored, but I feel in my heart and body that it will not return.

I went to a dark place though before I started to head toward the light.  Today I have found yoga and meditation, along with eating more healthy, reading inspirational books, and being in the now to bring me forward, perhaps one day reaching enlightenment?  :)

Positives are happening all around us.  Including have a couple of great people come forward to become our surrogate.  The plan for now is for the magic to happen a year from the present.